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Will agree that you should deal with them according to your pleasure,
and our leech Philippus, in spite of his youth, is a perfect Hippocrates
I can assure you! He will patch up the fine fellow--your head-man I
mean, and as to any question of compensation, my father--well, you know
he is no haggler." "I beg you not to add insult to the injury that I
have suffered under your roof," interrupted Haschim. "No amount of money
can buy off my wrath over the spilt blood of a friend--and Rustem was my
friend--a free and valiant youth. As to the punishment of the guilty: on
that I insist. Blood cries for blood. That is our creed; and though
yours, to be sure, enjoins the contrary, so far as I know you act by the
same rule as we. All honor to your physician; but it goes to my heart,
and raises my gall to see such things take place in the house of the man
to whom the Khaliff has confided the weal or woe of Egyptian Christians.
Your boasted tolerance has led to the death of an honest though humble
man in a time of perfect peace--or at least maimed him for life. As to
your honesty, it would seem..." "Who dares impugn it?" cried Orion. "I,
young man," replied the merchant with the calm dignity of age. "I, who
sold this piece of work last evening, and find it this morning robbed of
its most precious ornament." "The great emerald has been cu
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